Boston's THIRD STAGE...as much as TS is a perfectionist, a la SP - I can't believe he hasn't wrung that release through the Wonka Wash. I refuse to add ANY of those songs onto my Ipod until it's redone....although, you can find 2 remastered songs, Amanda, and Cool the Engines on a compilation album.

What say the masses?

Oh, and btw, 'Nickel and Dime' sounds an awful lot like Xanadu, or vice-versa!

I agree, Third Stage is a great album that needs some love. There was a huge drop off from the first two albumsRegarding the drums, he started experimenting with electronic drums and it just doesn't have the same impact.

Dawn Patrol sounds fine to me. Remastering wouldn't necessarily help it. A lot of albums sound worse after "remastering," like Thin Lizzy's Live & Dangerous. The Vertigo remaster doesn't sound as good as the original Warner Bros. issue. You can't hear the bass and the guitars are too loud.

verslibre wrote:Dawn Patrol sounds fine to me. Remastering wouldn't necessarily help it. A lot of albums sound worse after "remastering," like Thin Lizzy's Live & Dangerous. The Vertigo remaster doesn't sound as good as the original Warner Bros. issue. You can't hear the bass and the guitars are too loud.

I guess that my main complaint with the Night Ranger CD's has always been that you have to crank them up extra loud to get any volume out of them.

verslibre wrote:Dawn Patrol sounds fine to me. Remastering wouldn't necessarily help it. A lot of albums sound worse after "remastering," like Thin Lizzy's Live & Dangerous. The Vertigo remaster doesn't sound as good as the original Warner Bros. issue. You can't hear the bass and the guitars are too loud.

I guess that my main complaint with the Night Ranger CD's has always been that you have to crank them up extra loud to get any volume out of them.

That's my issue with Third Stage. It's low, and 'muffled'. When it used to come up in iTunes you could hear the difference between the previous song, and say, Holly Ann...

I know that I always used to think that Night Ranger's albums from the 80's needed remastering badly. But it's possible that those have since been remastered?

I wish that Rock Candy would get the rights to remaster and reissue Bad English's 2 albums.

The first Bad English album is scheduled for the reissue/remaster release from Rock Candy Records on June 30th.

That's great news! Thank you for mentioning it!

Some of the albums that I most wanted Rock Candy to remaster since they had already remastered/released the Survivor, Cobra and Target albums, are the two Bad English, The Storm's first album, and some of the Jimi Jamison solo albums like "When Love Comes Down" and "Empires."

Actually, I should add Neal Schon's "Late Night" solo album to that list.

Journey/Survivor wrote:Some of the albums that I most wanted Rock Candy to remaster since they had already remastered/released the Survivor, Cobra and Target albums, are the two Bad English, The Storm's first album, and some of the Jimi Jamison solo albums like "When Love Comes Down" and "Empires."

Unless there was bonus tracks or something additional, I wouldn't get the Empires disc, which remember was billed as Jimi Jamison's Survivor. But I would grab When Love Comes Down because I don't have that one.

THERE WERE MANY attempts at piecing together supergroups during the late 80s but few were as successful as Bad English, a project born from the mash-up of two hugely influential outfits, namely the Babys (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Philips) and Journey (Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and, later, Deen Costronovo). Both groups had featured talent to die for so anticipation was extremely high for this noble alliance, Fortunately, unlike similar collaborations, the results were spectacular, leaving no one in any doubt that Bad English had delivered a cornerstone record.

Fronted by the stunning and instantly identifiable voice of John Waite, and ably supported by guitar firebrand Neal Schon, the album contains a brace of superior tracks that elevated the record to platinum status and beyond. It boasted no less than five hit singles, including ‘Price Of Love’ and the chart topping #1 power ballad ‘When I See You Smile’. All in all, a scorching example of a style and sound that has not diminished one jot over time. No wonder the album sold Platinum and beyond.

SPECIAL DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION, FULLY REMASTERED AUDIO, 20 PAGE FULL COLOUR BOOKLET, 4,000 WORD ESSAY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM, NEW INTERVIEW AND ENHANCED ARTWORK

TRACK LISTING: 1.BEST OF WHAT I GOT 2.HEAVEN IS A 4 LETTER WORD 3.POSSESSION 4.FORGET ME NOT 5.WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE 6.TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST 7.GHOST IN YOUR HEART 8.PRICE OF LOVE 9.READY WHEN YOU ARE 10.LAY DOWN 11.THE RESTLESS ONES 12.ROCKIN’ HORSE 13.DON’T WALK AWAY BONUS TRACKS: 14.PRICE OF LOVE (REMIX) 15.FORGET ME NOT (REMIX)

I'm wondering if it's an MCA thing. Night Ranger CD's were MCA, Boston's Third Stage was on MCA, sounds about right. If I see that MCA logo on the album, pretty much guaranteed we won't see a remaster. Same goes for Dennis DeYoung's Boomchild.

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THERE WERE MANY attempts at piecing together supergroups during the late 80s but few were as successful as Bad English, a project born from the mash-up of two hugely influential outfits, namely the Babys (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Philips) and Journey (Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and, later, Deen Costronovo). Both groups had featured talent to die for so anticipation was extremely high for this noble alliance, Fortunately, unlike similar collaborations, the results were spectacular, leaving no one in any doubt that Bad English had delivered a cornerstone record.

Fronted by the stunning and instantly identifiable voice of John Waite, and ably supported by guitar firebrand Neal Schon, the album contains a brace of superior tracks that elevated the record to platinum status and beyond. It boasted no less than five hit singles, including ‘Price Of Love’ and the chart topping #1 power ballad ‘When I See You Smile’. All in all, a scorching example of a style and sound that has not diminished one jot over time. No wonder the album sold Platinum and beyond.

SPECIAL DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION, FULLY REMASTERED AUDIO, 20 PAGE FULL COLOUR BOOKLET, 4,000 WORD ESSAY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM, NEW INTERVIEW AND ENHANCED ARTWORK

TRACK LISTING: 1.BEST OF WHAT I GOT 2.HEAVEN IS A 4 LETTER WORD 3.POSSESSION 4.FORGET ME NOT 5.WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE 6.TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST 7.GHOST IN YOUR HEART 8.PRICE OF LOVE 9.READY WHEN YOU ARE 10.LAY DOWN 11.THE RESTLESS ONES 12.ROCKIN’ HORSE 13.DON’T WALK AWAY BONUS TRACKS: 14.PRICE OF LOVE (REMIX) 15.FORGET ME NOT (REMIX)

THERE WERE MANY attempts at piecing together supergroups during the late 80s but few were as successful as Bad English, a project born from the mash-up of two hugely influential outfits, namely the Babys (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Philips) and Journey (Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and, later, Deen Costronovo). Both groups had featured talent to die for so anticipation was extremely high for this noble alliance, Fortunately, unlike similar collaborations, the results were spectacular, leaving no one in any doubt that Bad English had delivered a cornerstone record.

Fronted by the stunning and instantly identifiable voice of John Waite, and ably supported by guitar firebrand Neal Schon, the album contains a brace of superior tracks that elevated the record to platinum status and beyond. It boasted no less than five hit singles, including ‘Price Of Love’ and the chart topping #1 power ballad ‘When I See You Smile’. All in all, a scorching example of a style and sound that has not diminished one jot over time. No wonder the album sold Platinum and beyond.

SPECIAL DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION, FULLY REMASTERED AUDIO, 20 PAGE FULL COLOUR BOOKLET, 4,000 WORD ESSAY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM, NEW INTERVIEW AND ENHANCED ARTWORK

TRACK LISTING: 1.BEST OF WHAT I GOT 2.HEAVEN IS A 4 LETTER WORD 3.POSSESSION 4.FORGET ME NOT 5.WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE 6.TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST 7.GHOST IN YOUR HEART 8.PRICE OF LOVE 9.READY WHEN YOU ARE 10.LAY DOWN 11.THE RESTLESS ONES 12.ROCKIN’ HORSE 13.DON’T WALK AWAY BONUS TRACKS: 14.PRICE OF LOVE (REMIX) 15.FORGET ME NOT (REMIX)

The Price of Love remix came out years ago on a double disk hits CD,. Had the remix and the regular version. And yes a double CD....

THERE WERE MANY attempts at piecing together supergroups during the late 80s but few were as successful as Bad English, a project born from the mash-up of two hugely influential outfits, namely the Babys (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Ricky Philips) and Journey (Jonathan Cain, Neal Schon and, later, Deen Costronovo). Both groups had featured talent to die for so anticipation was extremely high for this noble alliance, Fortunately, unlike similar collaborations, the results were spectacular, leaving no one in any doubt that Bad English had delivered a cornerstone record.

Fronted by the stunning and instantly identifiable voice of John Waite, and ably supported by guitar firebrand Neal Schon, the album contains a brace of superior tracks that elevated the record to platinum status and beyond. It boasted no less than five hit singles, including ‘Price Of Love’ and the chart topping #1 power ballad ‘When I See You Smile’. All in all, a scorching example of a style and sound that has not diminished one jot over time. No wonder the album sold Platinum and beyond.

SPECIAL DELUXE COLLECTOR’S EDITION, FULLY REMASTERED AUDIO, 20 PAGE FULL COLOUR BOOKLET, 4,000 WORD ESSAY ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE ALBUM, NEW INTERVIEW AND ENHANCED ARTWORK

TRACK LISTING: 1.BEST OF WHAT I GOT 2.HEAVEN IS A 4 LETTER WORD 3.POSSESSION 4.FORGET ME NOT 5.WHEN I SEE YOU SMILE 6.TOUGH TIMES DON’T LAST 7.GHOST IN YOUR HEART 8.PRICE OF LOVE 9.READY WHEN YOU ARE 10.LAY DOWN 11.THE RESTLESS ONES 12.ROCKIN’ HORSE 13.DON’T WALK AWAY BONUS TRACKS: 14.PRICE OF LOVE (REMIX) 15.FORGET ME NOT (REMIX)

The Price of Love remix came out years ago on a double disk hits CD,. Had the remix and the regular version. And yes a double CD....

I have that 2 disc Greatest Hits CD package too. I bought it for the POL remix. I never thought that the remix sounded that different. I think that I may also have the FMN remix on a 45 or something like that?

If they couldn't get unreleased tracks, then they should have also tacked on some live recordings of Bad English, like they did with Target on the Target CDs.

First they released remastered versions of "Survivor" "Premonition" "Caught In The Game" "Vital Signs" "When Seconds Count" and "Too Hot To Sleep."And then a few years later they released a remastered version of "Eye Of The Tiger."The Rock Candy remasters sound great, plus they have 16 page booklets inside with interviews with Jim Peterik about each album.

Rock Candy did the same thing with the "Cobra" and "Target" CD's. Remastered with booklets.

If you can afford them, it's well worth buying those Rock Candy remasters.

the Bob Catley "Spirit of Man" album should be pretty near the top of the list. One of the worst sounding albums I've ever heard from a well-known singer of a relatively popular band (Magnum--who had some decent success in the UK/Europe, but never broke the US).